Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Great Regulars: While "reading" and "literacy" have

been made into a top priority, reading books has been sidelined.

In practice, it means that a great deal of energy, money and focus have been put into teaching children how to read, while older children are given excerpts from books to read and then be quizzed about. It's quite possible to find primary schools where older children don't have the experience of reading a whole book, of talking about it in an open-ended way.

from Michael Rosen: The Guardian: Books blog: How to start a reading revolution

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